Peter Hartl

The spectrum of topics ranges from political history with a focus on contemporary history (especially National Socialism and post-war history) to cultural history and social history. In addition, ZDF-History also regularly deals with pre-modern history, art and cultural history.

He skillfully forged a difficult government alliance between the Christian Democratics and the Social Democratics, but the conservative man at the head of the state, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, responded with incomprehension to the revolt in society marked by the Vietnam demonstrations, sexual revolution and Nazi debates.

The film draws attention to the fate of over 300,000 German citizens who were deported from the Soviet-occupied sector to the Soviet Union towards the end of World War II and until the 1950s and sentenced to forced labor as human reparation. It is confronted with shocking fates without hiding the fact that German omnipotence fantasies were at the beginning of this path of suffering.